An MP has called for motorists who use stolen disabled parking permits to find better parking spaces should be jailed for three months or more.

The MP says that the authorities do not take abuse of disabled parking seriously enough (Picture: Alex MacNaughton)

Philip Davies , a Conservative MP, said that misuse of disabled ‘blue badge’ parking permit was not taken seriously enough.

He said that the loss of a parking permit deprived disabled people of the ‘freedom to go about their daily lives’.

‘This actually causes a great deal of distress to many people,’ he said.

‘If somebody steals a blue badge, the double whammy effect is not only are they then using a space that they don’t need and denying somebody else that space, but they’ve also taken away the blue badge from the person who genuinely does need it so that they are also unable to claim their space.’

He called for a three-month minimum term for people who use a fake disabled parking badge.

Mr Davies’s call came during a House of Commons debate on the Disabled Persons Parking Badges Bill.